Industry Days Coming Back After Shutdown Delays

DARPA, DTRA Cranking Again

• The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $965K contract to Lockheed Martin for a trade study covering “Phase 0” of the High Speed Strike Weapon (HSSW). Raytheon received what looks like a similar award a month ago. Back in May the Air Force cancelled a demonstration requirement they had been working on for about a year. The Air Force and the agency are consolidating their hypersonic efforts and aiming for more reachable goals than FALCON and its Hypersonic Technology Vehicle.

AUSA 2013 – Damn Glad to Meet You!

DID Editor Joe Katzman is on-site at AUSA 2013 in Washington, DC. I have a number of appointments already set up, but DID’s team are always interested in meeting our readers, and all of the faces we’d otherwise “see” only via emails.

DID is especially interested in talking to people who have wisdom and stories to share about the human side of implementing Performance-Based Logistics. How do management styles, work structures, team-building, incentives et. al. need to change, in order to make PBL successful? Other topics of especial interest include the use of new manufacturing technologies, and cybersecurity.